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Getting old Loki titles to run

Getting old Loki titles to run

Posted Dec 10, 2025 14:04 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
Parent article: Bazzite: a gem for Linux gamers

I've mostly used Bazzite to run Steam games without trouble, but I thought it'd be fun to tinker with getting some of the old Loki games working, I own at least half or more of them, as well as some of the Hyperion published games. One thing I needed to do was use rpm-ostree to layer on:

'gtk+.i686' 'gtk+.x86_64' audiofile.i686 audiofile.x86_64 esound-libs.i686 esound-libs.x86_64 sdl12-compat.i686 SDL_mixer.i686 SDL_sound.i686 SDL_ttf.i686

which amazingly are still included with 32-bit builds in Fedora 43. Getting the installers to work required applying `linux32` to pretend to be an i686 system instead of x86_64 because the installers didn't know what to do with that since that platform type didn't exist when they were written, and getting sound to work requires using `padsp-32` to provide an emulated /dev/dsp sound device which directs into Pipewire using its PulseAudio support. I was able to get Heretic 2, SiN and Jagged Alliance 2 to work (IIRC) but not Railroad Tycoon 2, Alpha Centauri or Heavy Gear. Some of these use libSDL-1.1 and not 1.2 so can't make use of the modern library build, or they use other dynamic libraries which they weren't bundled with but rely on that aren't present on modern systems. I haven't spent more time on it because the point is to _not_ make fiddling with the computer to be the game, and just play games, which otherwise work just fine, including recent ones like Doom Eternal (although I think I like Hard Reset more).


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Getting old Loki titles to run

Posted Dec 10, 2025 14:14 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link]

One of my minor regrets is not saving the nice tin that Quake III Arena came in from Loki. I played so much Q3A in part because it was (and still is!) fun, but also because it was Linux-native and there were so few choices then. It was so cool to be able to play something on Linux instead of Windows.

There are, of course, a number of Linux ports for Q3A that you could use with the game files from the Loki version. Perhaps that would make a good article, I'd have to test them very thoroughly...


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